About Elisa
Elisa Dorrough-Ewing is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on practical steps and steady support for daily life challenges.
She draws on 23 years of experience across inpatient, outpatient, community mental health, independent practice, and home health settings. Elisa earned a Master of Social Work from the University of South Florida in 2000 and holds a Florida LCSW.
Background and approach
Her background gives her familiarity with a wide range of concerns from mood disorders to grief and relationship issues. Her style is client-centered and strengths-based. That means conversations center on a person’s goals, values, and existing strengths.
She offers direction when useful and supports people as they make small, sustainable changes. Elisa uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness along with emotionally-focused ideas and motivational interviewing. In practice that can look like identifying unhelpful thoughts, building focused coping skills, practicing present-moment awareness, and clarifying what someone really wants from their life.
She works with common struggles such as depression, self-esteem, addiction concerns, sleep problems, and change-related stress. Elisa also supports issues related to caregiving, attachment, communication problems, and women’s health concerns. She aims to make therapy understandable and doable on a busy schedule.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Elisa combines client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people manage symptoms and make practical changes. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person’s goals and building on their strengths, which helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through decisions or life stress. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful habits.She also uses emotionally-focused ideas to help people better identify and express feelings in relationships. That approach can be useful when patterns of communication or attachment get in the way of connection. Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work together; the therapist will collaborate with each person to find the methods that fit their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow real-time conversation and visual connection, phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging provides ongoing check-ins and quick support between sessions. These options help therapy fit into work, caregiving, and travel schedules while keeping a steady course toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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